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From: Starglider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 4:21:45 AM
Subject: Re: [singularity] Defining the Singularity

>What I'm not sure about is that you gain anything from 'neural' or
>'brainlike' elements at all. The brain should not be put on a pedestal.

I think you're right.  A good example is natural language.  Neural networks are 
poor at symbolic processing.  Humans process about 10^9 bits of information 
from language during a lifetime, which means the language areas of the brain 
must use thousands of synapses per bit.

-- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED]




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